Word: saws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polytechnic students saw a specific test for their questions: Poland's general elections next January. A free and honest election in Poland today could result in a clean sweep for the now banned Catholic parties, so deep runs the revulsion from Communism. The January elections will not be free, but the Communists, under intense pressure, will offer approved alternate candidates on a one-party slate for the first time. The Polytechnic students (members of Catholic, Socialist and Communist youth organizations) seemed ready to accept this, provided they could nominate some of the "approved alternates." Similar groups among factory workers...
...Vienna gave Poland nominal independence, but after a period of "watchful waiting" the Russians were back again with a program of wholesale executions and Russification. Napoleon had used Poland ("my second Polish war") as an excuse to attack Russia, but it was Otto von Bismarck, master of Realpolitik, who saw Poland's festering hatred of Russia as a means of keeping the great eastern power in bounds. "If one helped the Poles a little, they could rise in revolt and win their freedom," he whispered to Italy's Premier Crispi...
Sentenced to death. Chapin appeared before a committee of the governor's council sitting as a pardons board. He could give no motive for the double killing beyond the fact that the baby sitter, Lynn Ann Smith, had screamed when she saw the bayonet in his hand. As he told it: "She opened the door, and the knife was in my hand, and she screamed. I was pushed from behind, or catapulted, but nobody was there." Asked whether he wanted his sentence commuted to life imprisonment, Chapin muttered: "Just as soon go, just as soon go." The council voted...
...year after graduation, Goheen enlisted in the Infantry as a Second Lieutenant, soon saw duty in the intelligence corps in Australia, New Guinea, and Leyte, and emerged in 1945 as assistant chief of Staff for Intelligence...
...Charles River and took positions in the Harvard bend. Motorized police barred off Cambridge streets and thousands of uniformed figures appeared in the Yard. Ever smiling, ever cigar-smoking Winston Churchill was to receive a Doctor of Laws degree in a traditional ceremony at Sanders Theatre. Those who saw and heard the British Prime Minister speak cheered wildly for the man regarded as the greatest figure of the times. After he left in the afternoon both gunboats and police slipped quietly away...